My Latest All Blacks Quiz

[booboo]

@Smudge you're 130?

[Smudge]

@booboo said in My Latest All Blacks Quiz:

@Smudge you're 130?

Yes, but I could easily pass for 112.

[Bovidae]

@Nepia I thought the top 5 quiz was reasonably easy. It helps that the same name can be across multiple categories.

@booboo @Smudge When checking info on said AB (from Men in Black and Rugby Museum website) I noted that he is still alive if the info is current. He turned 94 last week.

[Smudge]

@Bovidae said in My Latest All Blacks Quiz:

@Nepia I thought the top 5 quiz was reasonably easy. It helps that the same name can be across multiple categories.

@booboo @Smudge When checking info on said AB (from Men in Black and Rugby Museum website) I noted that he is still alive if the info is current. He turned 94 last week.

Yeah was weighing up on doing a feature story on him, but I've heard mixed reports on his health.

[Rugger Quizzes]

Half thinking of doing a quiz which contains every All Black ever.

Is it insanity to do a quiz with 1157 answers?

Who would have the time and inclination to actually take such a quiz?

[Chris B.]

@Rugger-Quizzes Maybe compromise and do it with ABs after 1970.

For the pre-1960s, most of us are going to be a bit lost after typing in Smith, Brown and Jones...and Nepia, Brownlie, Cooke and Gallagher....

[Bovidae]

I would agree with @Chris-B. Speaking for myself, I'd be needing plenty of guesses to name full AB teams pre 1970s outside of the more well-known players. Not all of us have read Men in Black cover to cover.

[Rugger Quizzes]

On second thoughts it's maybe a bit too ambitious. Do I cut it off at players who have appeared in the World Cup era perhaps?

[booboo]

@Rugger-Quizzes or the pro era?

[Chris B.]

@booboo Soooo......you're starting to suspect that your recall of all that Men in Black reading isn't quite as good as it was?

Whatever you do RQ, make sure you set a generous time limit. I used to be fantastic at TV quizzes, but these days I find that I know soooooo much that it take my brain a while to find the right answer.

It's about as annoying as having to wear reading glasses to assist my previously excellent eyesight.

I console myself that the rest of you feckers have got it all in front of you - especially the ones who wear fitbits excessively!

[Rugger Quizzes]

@booboo said in My Latest All Blacks Quiz:

@Rugger-Quizzes or the pro era?

Hmmm. 1996 Onwards? I'm kind of blinded by the nostalgia of the 1987 RWC winners to not include them.

[Bovidae]

@Rugger-Quizzes My vote would be 1980 onwards so you include historic tours like the 1981 Boks, 1983 Lions, Baby Blacks etc, as well as the 1987 RWC.

[Rugger Quizzes]

I think I've decided what I'll do now. I was born in 1975 so all All Blacks in my lifetime. Watch this space!

[Rugger Quizzes]

@Bovidae Good call re those tours.

[Frye]

@Rugger-Quizzes said in My Latest All Blacks Quiz:

Back online after a fleeting visit from the inlaws! Latest quiz. All Blacks Top 5 by category. http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/83115/new-zealand-all-blacks-rugby-top-5-players-by-category

Damn. Just missed one.

[booboo]

@Chris-B. More a case of paring down the numbers

[Rugger Quizzes]

Have gone and done it chaps. All players to have appeared since 1975.

http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/83115/new-zealand-rugby-all-blacks-all-players-since-1975

Some names I've never heard of in there. Went on 1 tour and that's it etc.

[booboo]

@Rugger-Quizzes before i start how long did you give us?

[Rugger Quizzes]

@booboo 30 minutes.
Top score so far is 278/441

[booboo]

got to 199 but stopped as
A. Was struggling to remember too many more
B. Site was locking up on me and doing a go slow
C. Have to go mow lawns